Improvement in lubricator



@dritti Mig-W- @glatte HUGH THOMAS, OFNEW YORK, N. Y. Lem/rs Patent No. 87,079, lated Fama/ry 16,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN LUBRICATOR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parc pf the same.

MPO- To all whom it ma/y concern Be it -known that I, HUGH THoMAs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Lubricator for Plauers and other Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this speciiieation, and in which- Figures l and 2 represent sectional views of my iinproved lubricator for planers and other machines, taken at right angles to eachother.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This invention is more especially designed for the beds of iron-planers, but is also applicable to the reciprocating parts of other machines; and

Itconsists in the providing of the ways of iron-planers and other machines with lubricating-boxes, having suspended therein rollers with oil-retaining peripherical surfaces, conforming to the slides, whereby the passing over of the slides will cause the rotation of the rollers,

by the friction of contact, and the lubrication of the slides by the oil which the rollers take up from the boxes.

In order that others may understand the construction and operation of my invent-ion, I will proceed to describe itwith reference to the drawings.

A isan oil-box of rectangular or other suitable formation, and designed for attachment, by screws or otherwise, to the under side of the bed of an iron-planer, and under a suitable opening provided therein, communicating with the V-way thereof, so that said box may be in open communication with said V-way.

This box A may be constructed of cast-iron or other metal, and is designed not only for containing oil or other lubricant, but also for reception of awheel or roller, B, of metal or other material, and is constructed in two sections or parts, a a, thereby to provide for the insertion of the said roller. The lubricating-material may be supplied to this box from time to time through the said opening inthe V-way, over the top of the box, and through which opening the oil-retaining material, with which the periphery of the wheel or roller is supplied, protrudes suiciently to effect a slight engagement with the V-slide, as it passes over it during the working of the machine.

The wheel or rollerV B is suspended within the box l forward or backward turning of thesaid screws, the

roller may bc made to sustain a greater or less pressure of the V-slide while it is being passed over.

This roller B has its periphery constructed to couform transversely to the bearing-surface ofthe V-slide, and is provided with a. partial covering, f, of cotton -yarn or other fibrous material, susceptible of soaking up and retaining oil or other liquid lubricant, so that the oil so retained may be transferred'thereirom to the bearing-surface of the V-slide while thesaid roller is being rotated againstv the same. v

This partial covering f may be secured upon the peripherical surface pf the roller by being laced back and forth, in a zigzag manner, through holes, i, made in the iange b, as represented in the drawing, or by other suitable means, whereby the desired end may be attained.

Any desirable number of these lubricators may be provided along the V-ways of the machine, so as to insure' an ecieut and uniform lubrication of the parts.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Alubricatiug-box for th; reciprocatiug'parts of -r'nachinery, fitted with an oil-supplying roller, the periphery of which conforms to the transverse section of the reciprocating parts, substantially as herein described.

2. In combination with the roller of such lubricatingbox, the yarn or fibrous materialnaced through holes therein, 'substantially as herein described.

HUGH THOMAS. Witnesses:

FRED. Hams, J. W. OooMBs." 

